An internal report from cross-engine write-path instrumentation: with individual writes slower than the idle window (a contended disk), every inter-write gap looked idle and fired a background full flush — 15 extra flushes during 100 contended adds, amplifying the very pressure that slowed the writes. The law now: an idle fire landing within the spacing floor of the last flush DEFERS to the floor boundary instead of flushing; the floor is min(interval, 10× the CONFIGURED idle window) — scaled to caller intent (a tiny idle window keeps fast idle-driven durability; default 2s/30s config gets a 20s floor), derived from the configured idle, never from a deferred re-arm delay (which would compound into runaway deferral). Deferred is never dropped: a lone write on a then-quiet store still persists at the floor without any further write arriving. Pins: the contended-shape pin (six slow-spaced writes fire ≤2 idle flushes, not one per gap; then still persist) + the original quiet-store idle pin unchanged. Unit 2055/2055.
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5.3 KiB
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121 lines
5.3 KiB
TypeScript
/**
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* @module tests/unit/brainy/persistence-policy
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* @description THE ENGINE-OWNED FLUSH CADENCE pins (A4,
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* SELF-ENGINE-LIFECYCLE-SPRINT, David-directed: callers NEVER call flush()
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* in hot paths). The production disease: 829 caller-scheduled per-write
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* flushes convoying into 45–66 second write walls — cadence hand-rolled a
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* layer above the only layer that can see dirty state and IO pressure.
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*
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* Pinned here: (1) the write-count trigger fires a BACKGROUND flush without
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* any caller flush(); (2) the idle trigger; (3) `'manual'` restores
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* caller-owned cadence exactly; (4) THE ACK LAW — a write acknowledges
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* without awaiting any background flush, even one that never resolves.
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*/
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import { describe, it, expect, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest'
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import { Brainy } from '../../../src/index.js'
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import { NounType } from '../../../src/types/graphTypes.js'
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const brains: Brainy[] = []
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async function mk(persistence?: {
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policy?: 'auto' | 'manual'
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flushEveryWrites?: number
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flushIntervalMs?: number
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flushOnIdleMs?: number
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}): Promise<Brainy> {
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const b = new Brainy({
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storage: { type: 'memory' },
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requireSubtype: false,
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...(persistence && { persistence })
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})
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await b.init()
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brains.push(b)
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return b
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}
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afterEach(async () => {
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for (const b of brains.splice(0)) await b.close().catch(() => {})
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vi.restoreAllMocks()
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})
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describe('persistence policy — the engine owns its flush cadence', () => {
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it('write-count trigger: N committed writes fire ONE background flush, no caller flush()', async () => {
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const brain = await mk({ flushEveryWrites: 5, flushOnIdleMs: 60_000, flushIntervalMs: 600_000 })
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const flushSpy = vi.spyOn(brain, 'flush')
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for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
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await brain.add({ data: `w${i}`, type: NounType.Document, metadata: { i } })
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}
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await vi.waitFor(() => expect(flushSpy).toHaveBeenCalled(), { timeout: 5000 })
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// Single-flight: the threshold crossing kicks exactly one.
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expect(flushSpy.mock.calls.length).toBe(1)
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})
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it('idle trigger: a quiet store with dirty writes flushes itself', async () => {
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const brain = await mk({ flushEveryWrites: 10_000, flushIntervalMs: 600_000, flushOnIdleMs: 60 })
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const flushSpy = vi.spyOn(brain, 'flush')
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await brain.add({ data: 'lone write', type: NounType.Document, metadata: {} })
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await vi.waitFor(() => expect(flushSpy).toHaveBeenCalled(), { timeout: 5000 })
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})
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it('idle debounce under load: slow writes never fire a flush per inter-write gap', async () => {
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// The contended-disk amplifier: writes slower than the idle window make
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// every gap look idle — without the spacing floor this fired a full
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// flush per write (measured 15 background flushes in 100 contended adds
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// on a production-shaped box). The floor (min(interval, 10×idle)) caps
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// idle fires; deferred, never dropped.
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const brain = await mk({ flushEveryWrites: 10_000, flushIntervalMs: 600_000, flushOnIdleMs: 50 })
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const flushSpy = vi.spyOn(brain, 'flush')
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// Six writes spaced wider than the idle window (50ms) with the whole
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// span inside ~one floor window (500ms): the old behavior fires ~an
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// idle flush per gap (≈6); the debounced behavior fires at most two
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// (one immediate boot-window fire + one at the floor boundary).
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for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
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await brain.add({ data: `slow ${i}`, type: NounType.Document, metadata: {} })
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await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 70))
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}
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expect(flushSpy.mock.calls.length, 'no flush-per-gap amplifier').toBeLessThanOrEqual(2)
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// Deferred, never dropped: the dirty writes still persist once the
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// floor elapses on the now-quiet store.
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await vi.waitFor(() => expect(flushSpy).toHaveBeenCalled(), { timeout: 5000 })
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})
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it("'manual' policy: the engine NEVER flushes on its own", async () => {
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const brain = await mk({ policy: 'manual', flushEveryWrites: 2, flushOnIdleMs: 30 })
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const flushSpy = vi.spyOn(brain, 'flush')
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for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
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await brain.add({ data: `m${i}`, type: NounType.Document, metadata: { i } })
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}
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await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 150))
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expect(flushSpy).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
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})
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it('THE ACK LAW: writes acknowledge without awaiting the background flush — even a hung one', async () => {
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const brain = await mk({ flushEveryWrites: 2, flushOnIdleMs: 60_000, flushIntervalMs: 600_000 })
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// A flush that NEVER resolves: if any write ack awaited it, the test
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// would time out. (The engine's background flight must be fire-and-log.)
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vi.spyOn(brain, 'flush').mockImplementation(() => new Promise<void>(() => {}))
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for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
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const id = await brain.add({ data: `a${i}`, type: NounType.Document, metadata: { i } })
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expect(id).toBeTruthy()
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}
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// All six writes acked while the "flush" hangs forever.
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const rows = await brain.find({ type: NounType.Document, limit: 10 })
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expect(rows.length).toBe(6)
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// Un-hang before afterEach close(): restore the method AND drop the
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// never-resolving in-flight promise (close() awaits the flight — with a
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// real flush that is correct; here it is the test's own artifact).
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vi.restoreAllMocks()
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;(brain as unknown as { _persistBackgroundFlight: Promise<void> | null })._persistBackgroundFlight =
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null
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})
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})
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